The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 83

“Good morning, holy father,” he said again, a little louder than before, and this time the hermit made a sign to him to come nearer.

Who acts: hermit · What happens: say, make, come · To what, where: sign, visitor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hermit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 morning	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 father	amod
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morning	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 louder	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 little	det
14	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 louder	advmod
15	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	parataxis
16	than	than	ADP	_	17 before	case
17	before	before	ADV	_	15 louder	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl:unmarked
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hermit	det
23	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	nsubj
24	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 sign	det
26	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 made	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 come	mark
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	advcl
31	nearer	near	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 come	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	hermit			again; morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	the hermit	a sign	visitor	time		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product
3	come	to-infinitive	the hermit not said here				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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